Over two decades of videotaped reviews by Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, Richard Roeper and a bevy of guest hosts will be available starting Thursday on the website AtTheMovies TV.com. Ostensibly the largest repository of video-based movie reviews available online, the site will offer about 5,000 reviews, searchable by film, director or actor, plus countless opportunities to giggle over Gene Siskel's enormous 1970's porn-star 'stache (seen here). (Newsday)
IFC kicks off their four-part Indie Sex series tonight with "Censored," a look at "how filmmakers, the film industry, and special interest groups have
attempted to both regulate and set free the images that filmmakers
create and who gets to see them." It looks to be another in the standard film-clips-and-talking-heads format, with chat from the likes of Gregg Araki, John Cameron Mitchell, Larry Clark,
Peter Sarsgaard and Guinevere Turner. The other three installments will cover "Taboos," "Teens" and "Extremes." Stripper-slash-Marilyn Manson-ex Dita von Teese is prominently featured, and judging from the clips offered on IFC's website, she's far more intriguing when she's dancing than she is when she's talking. (IFC)
Amazon's now selling digitized DVD copies of films from the National Archives, starting small but ultimately planning to offer thousands of public domain and government films for purchase. The DVD-on-demand service is being provided by CustomFlix Labs of Scotts Valley, Calif., who have a non-exclusive deal with the archives. Previously, members of the public had to travel to the National Archives, located in Maryland, to enjoy footage of Nixon arm-wrasslin' Kruschev or chimps smoking cigars at the 1959 World's Fair, but now just $19.99 will bring those gems right to your mailbox. (Hollywood Reporter)
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